Head to head, heaving body on heaving body. Heart Vs. Heart. Sheer desire against an absolutely equal … continue Ali-Frazier At 50 And Whey There Has Never Been A
“I would have quit, but I didn’t know how to do anything else but fight.” Beyond the mythologies and whimsical fairy tales full of heroes who sneered at adversity
In a time of constant media exposure and fifteen second attention spans, it is now almost impossible to fully appreciate the larger-than-life fame and popularity of Muhammad Ali in
We talk of fighters having a “puncher’s chance,” and that, more than anything else, was what Earnie Shavers brought into the ring at Caesars Palace on this fateful night,
The current undisputed heavyweight boxing monarch is the undefeated southpaw from Simferopol, Crimea, in the Ukraine, Oleksandr Usyk, aka “The Cat.” He turned pro in late 2013, but had
In March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then immediately announced that he was done. As in, finished.
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Although the 1970s is rightly revered as the Golden Age of heavyweight boxing, most would agree that the 1990s gives it a run for its money. Sure, the holy
My earliest memory of boxing is a poster for Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks from back in 1988, the big heavyweight superfight that lasted exactly 91 seconds. The poster was
